Jeff Lawson

Chief Software Architect

Cogent Logic Corporation

Toronto
Ontario
Canada

Email: jeff@cogentlogic.com

Biography:

Jeff Lawson is a software developer with twenty years experience developing COTS products and bespoke software. He spent the eighties coding Z80 and MC68000 and the early nineties developing C++/Win32/COM software. In recent years he has built up a good deal of experience working exclusively with XML/Java. Jeff was responsible for the development of the GUI/XML/DBMS interoperability product XchainJ that first went into production in February 2002 and is now an Eclipse plugin. Jeff is frequently called upon to develop software for non-trivial government projects that use complex XML and also has experience delivering training courses and conference presentations.

Papers:

Automated Rich-Client Generation from XML Schemas

Case Study: XML Schemas & Rich-Client Applications—The United Nations' Biosafety Clearing-House